Yesterday Apple released their long awaited iPad, and I’ll admit that my response time that morning was noticeably slower as I read every update. Now that it’s out, the question arises: is this a nice to have or a must have for the active real estate agent?

Still driving around town filling your flyer boxes? So were my brother and I up until a few months ago. Then we discovered real estate text marketing for our listings instead… no more stuffing flyer boxes!

Google Docs is just one of many free, web-based document editing programs now available. While it certainly has its quirks, the price is right, you’ll never need to upgrade anything, and you can access your documents from anywhere.

We often talk about the latest and greatest real estate technology tools, but rarely about where our social sphere, buyers, sellers, prospects are at in terms of technology. My sense is that a lot of where they’re at is based on their age.

How do you provide real estate disclosures to buyers and their agents? For some, they can be uploaded to the MLS for agents to download. But there are many people still printing out mountains of thick paper stacks. I wanted an easier way for those who don’t have the MLS option (for example when buyers at an open house request them), so I created Full Disclosure as a side project.

You already know that fresh content and useful data are two of the keys to a successful real estate website. Luckily, a new breed of online companies has popped up to help provide you with the charts and data your visitors want, updated automatically.

If you’re like many Realtors, your interaction with the NAR mothership probably consists of you sending them money, and them sending you political alerts. But lately the National Association of Realtors has really stepped up to help strapped real estate agents by offering many useful NAR tools for free.

It’s that time again… time for another top ten list! Here are ten real estate tools I can’t live without, based mostly off their incredible usefullness (and also sheer awesomeness as in the case with Animoto). In no particular order, the top ten are…